The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-08-25
A NEW PARTY.
0oihgs Of the Usited Labor Convention 6f New

Ooihgs Of tho Uwited Labor Convention of New
The New York United Labor Convention.
held at Syracuse OF which Henry George
was president, nominated q full ticket as
follows: Secretary OF state, Henry Gs6rge,
New York; controller, Victor A. Wilde,
Kings; state treasurer. B. II. Cummings,
Montgomery; attorney general, Dennis c.
Feely Monroe; state engineer and survay-
or. Sylvanus A: Sweet.
Resolutio were adopted for the organ.
nation OF great national party. Reso.
lutions were also passed favoring eight
hours work for letter carriers: women
equality; extending theschool age in chill.
dren from fourteen to sixteen years; in iav.
or OF free public libraries; state printing
department.; the Australian system oi u
secret ballot; the prohibition OF the ON.
ployment OF armed detectives; denouncinc
class legislation and the transportation
Of public funds:
The platform says among other things:
We aim at tho abolition Of the system
which cOmpe's men to pay their fellow
creatures for the use of Gods gifts to all
and permits monopolizers to deprive labor
OF natural opportunities for employment,
thus filling the land with tramps and pau
pers and bringing about an unnatural
competition which tends to reduce wages
'" o."i 'NV!on rates ana 70 uAke tue wealth.
producer the industrial slave Of those
who grew rich by his toll: We aim at tho
abolition Of the system which makes such
beneficent inventions as the railroad and
telegraph means for the oppression OF
the people and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF an
aristocracy Of wealth and power. We aim
at the abolition OF all laws which give to
any class OF citizens advantages either ju.
dicial, financial, industrial or political
a ~ ol,~ 1~A,u
call upon all who would effect tho enamel.
patton OF labor and who would make the
American Union and its com.
ponent states democratic common
wealths OF really Tree and independent
citizens. to ignore the monopolists and
join with us in organizing great national
party on this broad platform OF natural
rights and equal justice. We do not aim
at securing any forced equality in the dis
tribntion Of wealth. What we propose is
not the disturbing OF any man in Ills hold.
ing or title, but by abolishing all taxes on
industry and its products leave to the pro-
ducer the free fruits of his exertion and by
the taxation OF land values exclusive OF
Improvements to devote to common use
those values which, arising not from the
exertion OF the individual, but from the
growth OF society belonging justly to the
community as IL whole. This increased tax
alton OF land not according to it's area but
according to it's value must, while relieving
the working farmer and small homestead
owner OF the undue burden now imposed
upon them, make it Improbable to hold
for speculation, and thus throw open
abundant opportunities for the employ
ment OF labor and the building up OF
homes. We would further promote the
commonwealth and further secure the
equal rights OF all by placing under public
control such agencies as are In their mn.
ture monopolies. Wefavor such as may
tend to reduce the hours OF labor, to pre-
vent the employment OF children OF tender
years, to avoid the competition OF convict
labor with honest industry, to secure the
Sanitary inspection of tenements, factories
and mines, and put an end to the abuse OF
Conspiracy lays.